PhD scholarship in Development of High Temperature Heat Pumps with Thermal Energy Storage - DTU Construct

Do you want to start your research career by making industrial heat clean, flexible and affordable? At DTU Construct you will work at the forefront of technologies key to decarbonizing industries: high-temperature heat pumps and high-temperature thermal energy storage.We invite applications for a fully funded PhD position in the Thermal Energy Section of the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. The position is part of HeatMinds, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network funded by Horizon Europe. HeatMinds brings together 6 universities and research institutes and 12 industrial and research partners across Europe to develop industrial high-temperature heat pumps and thermal energy storage. Your project will develop new Carnot Battery technologies: systems that combine heat pumps based on high temperature thermodynamic cycles together with high-temperature thermal energy storage, such as molten salts and dual-media packed beds. These systems will deliver clean process heat while also giving industry flexibility on the electricity market.Supervision: Prof. Adriano Sciacovelli and Prof. Anders Christiansen Erlandsson with industrial secondments. Responsibilities and qualifications Your overall goal will be to find out how industrial high temperature heat pumps can benefit from integrated thermal energy storage by developing new cost-effective, high-performance hybrid configurations. You will work with fellow doctoral candidates across the network and with industrial partners in Denmark and abroad.Your main tasks will be: Develop and Design new architectures comprising cycles using natural working fluids and thermal energy storage, optimised for efficiency, cost, and fast response to electricity price signals Carry out multi-objective optimisation and dynamic system analysis of alternative layouts Validate results by carrying out experiments and data comparison during industrial secondments, turning the results into innovations with real-world impact (e.g. patents, future commercial solutions) Publish in international journals, present at conferences and take part in HeatMinds network training, summer schools and outreach. You have: A solid background in engineering thermodynamics, heat transfer and energy technologies, e.g. conversion or storage systems Familiarity with modelling and numerical simulations, for example for MSc thesis or student projects Programming skills, preferably in Python,...

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